{"id":1074,"date":"2011-11-10T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2011-11-09T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:26:56","slug":"love-as-the-pivot-of-our-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"LOVE AS THE PIVOT OF OUR EXISTENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cAmong yourselves, charity, charity, charity.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> This death-bed wish of Eugene for his Oblate family reflected his lifetime of insistence that<em><strong> \u201cCharity is the pivot on which our whole existence turns.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some 50 years earlier, we see him insisting on the same spirit for the members of the Youth Congregation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Art 22. Although the precept of loving others is aimed at everyone, we can and we must give preference to this virtue.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Art 23. The links that bind the members of the Congregation together place this order in the forefront of their consideration for each other.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Statuts, Chapitre XIII \u2013 Obligations spirituelles des congr\u00e9ganistes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Three things will last forever&#8211; faith, hope, and love&#8211; and the greatest of these is love<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>I Corinthians 13:13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.\u201d Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmong yourselves, charity, charity, charity.\u201d This death-bed wish of Eugene for his Oblate family reflected his lifetime of insistence that \u201cCharity is the pivot on which our whole existence turns.\u201d Some 50 years earlier, we see him insisting on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[100,17],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rule","tag-charity","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}